Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Fighting Words

I question whether fighting in hockey is really necessary.
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9 comments:

Franklen said...

FWIW- King had already been trying to pick a fight with Boogard to no avail before he started jabbing at Harding and the covered puck. I saw the whole thing as King doing something that he knew would bring a reaction from Boogard. Pretty unnecessary all around, really.

1:06 PM
Anonymous said...

the anti-fight movement is from weak stomached fans. if you've played the game outside highschool, odds are you know that fighting is a part of the game. period.

1:43 PM
dggoddard said...

I'd like to see the college hockey "powers that be" work towards reducing injuries and violent hits.

2:03 PM
Anonymous said...

Fighting in hockey is stupid and does not belong in the game.

2:21 PM
jabartlett said...

Amen, Second Anonymous Commenter. College hockey does not suffer at all from its anti-fighting rules. Fighting could be permanently ended at all other levels of hockey *tomorrow*, but the powers that be at various levels don't want it ended, apparently because fighting appeals to cretins like First Anonymous Commenter, who don't find the speed and physicality of the game interesting without the chance that two double-digit-IQ'd goons will start whaling on each other like it was UFC, or some other sort of decadent Roman circus entertainment.

Yes, First Anonymous Commenter, fighting once part of the game. Yes. So were helmetless players, sweaters made of wool, and wooden sticks. Should we bring those back, too?

3:38 PM
Anonymous said...

its a part of the game get over it

7:39 PM
Anonymous said...

dido its part of the game

9:07 AM
Anonymous said...

I don't think that the problem is fighting per say, it has a place in the game both historically and currently. The problem, as I see it, is that the perception is that fighting is up across the board. I'm not sure if that is the reality of the situation as I have no supporting statistics.Combined with the perception that fighting is up is the perception that it isn't a last resort or more specifically that their are players who's only purpose is to fight.

I really think that their needs to be some way to reduce fighting, not necessarally eliminate it from the game. I'm not sure the best way to do that, but I think that escalating penalties for each fight is something that needs to be considered.

1:31 PM
Anonymous said...

I go to a hockey game to watch hockey not fighting. If I wanted to watch a fight I would go to one. It just interrupts the flow of the game and while fighting may be a skill, it is not what I came to see. Don't waste my time. I do like a good clean hard check.

I ususally watch college hockey. When I watch NHL on TV, during the fight I go get a snack. If I recorded it, I hit the skip button.

As for this attitude "if you've played the game outside highschool," get over yourselves. While you may have been taken care of as an athlete, until you did not make the next level, those in the majority that did not or never had the chance to play PAY THE BILLS!

Without the rest of us you might be playing on a pond somewhere but, I guess global warming would put an end to that ;)

Yes, I did play other sports. Not much hockey in Georgia in the late 60s early 70s. I don't even care for the state of basketball these days.

2:08 PM

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